Merricat
@figandthistles.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Zinester. Librarian. Dabbling Hedgewitch.
Signal: merricat.24
Protonmail: merricat23@proton.me
Signal: merricat.24
Protonmail: merricat23@proton.me
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A study just came out of Colorado looking at prison libraries' contributions to pro-social behavior / reentry success, and I am very much looking forward to diving into it this evening to see their findings! 📚📜
www.lrs.org/the-prism-pr...
www.lrs.org/the-prism-pr...
The PRISM Project – Library Research Service
www.lrs.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A study just came out of Colorado looking at prison libraries' contributions to pro-social behavior / reentry success, and I am very much looking forward to diving into it this evening to see their findings! 📚📜
www.lrs.org/the-prism-pr...
www.lrs.org/the-prism-pr...
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periodically, i post this utterly incandescent essay by @isanchezprado.bsky.social. it reminds me about the kind of work i’d like to pursue, the kind most worth pursuing, i think. and my gooooood, the prose. the prose, y’all.
The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado explains why humanities scholars need to articulate a more robust defense of their disciplines.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
periodically, i post this utterly incandescent essay by @isanchezprado.bsky.social. it reminds me about the kind of work i’d like to pursue, the kind most worth pursuing, i think. and my gooooood, the prose. the prose, y’all.
All I want for Christmas is a livestream of @michaelhobbes.bsky.social reading The Atlantic. It would be like Mystery Science Theater for poor writing.
This post is inspired by Thomas Chatterton Williams' latest Atlantic article.
This post is inspired by Thomas Chatterton Williams' latest Atlantic article.
December 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
All I want for Christmas is a livestream of @michaelhobbes.bsky.social reading The Atlantic. It would be like Mystery Science Theater for poor writing.
This post is inspired by Thomas Chatterton Williams' latest Atlantic article.
This post is inspired by Thomas Chatterton Williams' latest Atlantic article.
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I can’t believe it flopped. I thought everyone was dying for a badly written account of what it’s like to have phone sex with a spoon stuck in a garbage disposal.
December 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I can’t believe it flopped. I thought everyone was dying for a badly written account of what it’s like to have phone sex with a spoon stuck in a garbage disposal.
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
FINAL DRAFT, How to Archive a Protest Zine.pdf
drive.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧵 of good free #zines on ethical+safe digital preservation of protest & advocacy:
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
* always RTing @invisiblehistories.bsky.social's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide for Southern Memory Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1QtFT... +
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Nature is always listening – the wondrous science of how mushrooms respond to music www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/m...
Nature Is Always Listening: The Wondrous Science of How Mushrooms Respond to Music
What playing music has to do with the happiness of the forest.
www.themarginalian.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Nature is always listening – the wondrous science of how mushrooms respond to music www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/m...
Imagine being so pathetic that all you can do is wail about evil socialist librarians as part of your try-hard, pick-me f@sc!st performance.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Imagine being so pathetic that all you can do is wail about evil socialist librarians as part of your try-hard, pick-me f@sc!st performance.
Günseli Yalcinkaya has so perfectly encapsulated how I think of brainrot. Dadaism In 25 years scholars will be writing about brain rot as Dadaist art.
plastermagazine.com/features/bra...
plastermagazine.com/features/bra...
Digital Dada or Futurist slop? An investigation into brainrot as art - Plaster Magazine
Brainrot is a trend that has been plaguing the internet for a while, but is there darker intentions behind its popularity?
plastermagazine.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Günseli Yalcinkaya has so perfectly encapsulated how I think of brainrot. Dadaism In 25 years scholars will be writing about brain rot as Dadaist art.
plastermagazine.com/features/bra...
plastermagazine.com/features/bra...
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚
Zine Librarians unConference 2025 | zinelibraries.info
www.zinelibraries.info
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
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For anyone who got a feedback request from Clarivate (Ex Libris) today - zine from Librarians & Archivists with Palestine
librarianswithpalestine.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
For anyone who got a feedback request from Clarivate (Ex Libris) today - zine from Librarians & Archivists with Palestine
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Our carceral system is the product of choices. We should, and could whenever we want to, make radically different choices. #abolish
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Our carceral system is the product of choices. We should, and could whenever we want to, make radically different choices. #abolish
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www.coastallinespress.com/p/get-your-c... Buy zines from Gaza to get the creators' work out there and to support them financially. Please add Coastal Lines zines to your library collections! 🇵🇸 📚
Get Your Copy
Zines are available by donation, with all profits going directly to the authors.
www.coastallinespress.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
www.coastallinespress.com/p/get-your-c... Buy zines from Gaza to get the creators' work out there and to support them financially. Please add Coastal Lines zines to your library collections! 🇵🇸 📚
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"Peter Rabbit" creator Beatrix Potter's little-known scientific studies of mushrooms (which help mycologists identify species to this day) and of lichens (the mysterious reproduction of which she discovered, revolutionizing their place in the kingdoms of life) www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/b...
Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms
“Imagination is the precursor to policy, the precondition to action. Imagination, like wonder, allows us to value something.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"Peter Rabbit" creator Beatrix Potter's little-known scientific studies of mushrooms (which help mycologists identify species to this day) and of lichens (the mysterious reproduction of which she discovered, revolutionizing their place in the kingdoms of life) www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/b...
Frightening.
www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...
www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...
Alarming Criminalization of Green Card Holder Based on “Antifa Materials” - National Lawyers Guild
As the federal government’s repression of dissent expands, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is increasingly alarmed at the situation evolving in Johnston County, Texas, in relation to the Prairieland ...
www.nlg.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Frightening.
www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...
www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Let it be known that I now know how to find the correct terms to catalog zines on farts.
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Let it be known that I now know how to find the correct terms to catalog zines on farts.
I'm already compiling a ton of resources from the zine conference. Here is a list of free zines, www.reddit.com/r/ZineLibrar...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm already compiling a ton of resources from the zine conference. Here is a list of free zines, www.reddit.com/r/ZineLibrar...
Resurrecting my Bluesky account to post about the Zine Librarians Unconference!
Showering, assembling coffee, and then away we go!
Showering, assembling coffee, and then away we go!
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Resurrecting my Bluesky account to post about the Zine Librarians Unconference!
Showering, assembling coffee, and then away we go!
Showering, assembling coffee, and then away we go!